Safety-pin



R. SCHRAMM.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 1B. I919.

1,33 1,943 Patented Feb. '24, 1920.

' amuawtoz JWAJW $3 Hot/Mu RICHARD SCHRAMM, or CINCINNATI, 01110,v ASSIGNOEITQ Tran NATIon -LM nKme MACHINE 00., or. emcInNA'rI, 01110, A CORPORATION or 02110.

' SAFETY-BIN.

Z '0 all whom t'tmay concern:

Be it known that I", RICHARD SCI-IRAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing -at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to safety pins such as aredesigned particularly for use in the. marking of laundry.

A material objection to the use of safety pins for laundry-marking purposes has developed from the liability of safety pins extant to catch in the'cylinderperforationsof washing machines and drying tum'blers now I generally employed, and which perforations in' drying tumblers vary from one fourth of an inch to five' sixteenths of an inch in diameter, in metallic cylinders of washing machines are fifteen-thirty seconds of an inch in diameter, and in wooden cylinders of washing machines are thirteensixteenths of an inchin diameter. In the metallic cylinders the perforations are spaced one-and one-fourth inches apart circumferentially'of the cylinders, and the direction of the length of the cylinders the perforations are one and one eighth inches apart. The perforations of the wooden cylindersare one and one half inches apart circumferentially and two inches apart longitudinally.

Therefore one object of my invention is the provision of a safety marking pin which by reason of its form and'construction is not liable to catch into any one of the perforations alluded to, andhence is adapted to contribute to the continuity of operation of washing machines and drying tumblers, and, at the same time, avert injury to clothes. Moreover the said capacity of function of my novel pin is not likely to be afi'ected'by any water-wear that may take place in connection with the perforations of Wooden cylinders.

Another ob'ect of the invention is the provision of a sa ety pin made up of certain elements which are so assembled and connected of themselves that the pin is susceptible of economical production without the employment of skilled labor, and when produced is well adapted to meet the condition set forth and generally withstand the usage to which safety pins are ordinarily subjected.

To the attainment of the foregoing the Specification .of Letters P atent.

In the accompanying :drawings, hereby made a part hereof;

Figurel is :a front elevation ofmy novel safety pin with the tongue inopeni'position. Fig. 2 isfa rear-elevation of the sameiwith the tongue inclosediposition. Fig. 3 isan elevationofthe'pinframe.'- Fig. 4 'is an' inner elevation and Fig. 5 a longitudinal centralisection of one head 'of the pin a s'the same Iap'pears precedent to application 'to the frame.

Figs. 6 and '7rare similar views-of the other head. Figs. 8 and '9 are similar. views 'ofithe keeper-member carried by the lastenamed head. A I

Similar :numerals of reference" designate corresponding parts in all the viewsof the drawings.

siliency. It-comprises abody bar 2 having I a curvilinear terminal 3 at one end thereof, a loop 4 at the oppositeend of'the body bar, and a tongue. 5 intowhich the loop 4 merges.

V PatentedflFeb. 24, 1920. Application flled January 1a, 1919. "serial no'. '27-1;eo7. I I

With theloop lof'frame 1 I combine the head 6, Figs. "1, 2, 4: and 5. The said head 6 isof brass or other suitable sheet metaland is of elliptical form in outline for important reasons hereinafter set forth. On thehead 6-is a'marginalflange. 7," and through the 7 said flange the headis strongly connectediof itself to the frame loop 4,1the :flange: being bent about the wire'of the floop'tas appears in. r

Fig. 2.

The second head 8 of the pin is formed of brass or other sheet-metal and is elliptical in outline, with a marginal flange 9, between ends of which an opening 10 is afforded. Combined directly with the head 8 is a keeper-member made up of an elliptical plate 11 held in and to the head 8 by the bent flange 9 thereof, and a keeper 12 provided by forming the plate 11 with an offset portion, best shown in Figs. 8 and 9, that is disposed in l the flange opening 10, and against the ends of the flange 9, and is slotted longitudinally of the pin, as indicated by 13,the mouth of.

the slot being preferably contracted as cshown The terminal 3 of the frame 1 is snugly disposed and held in the bight of the claim an keeper and the body bar ofsaid frame rests-in the keeper 12 and adjacent to'one end of the flange 9. This manifestly, contributes to the strength and stiffness of the pin. VThe tongue 5 is adapted to be sprung into and out of the keeper 12 and to and from a position against the opposite end of the flange 9, and Consequently when; the tongue 5 is inclosed position it will also contribute to the stiffness and strength of the pin. 7

It will be understood from the foregoing that onepart of my invention resides in the i construction.andrelative arrangement of the elements whereby a stifl, strong and durable safety pin is formed or produced, and another and highly important part of the invention, consists in a safety pin having spaced heads, of elliptical form in outline, and WlIlQhiby reason of their form and relative arrangement are not liable to be caught in the perforations .of washing machines and drying tumblers hereinbefore referred to.,

As appears in Fig.- 1 the heads 6 and 8 are 1 adapted to be provided'on their front sides vwith marking numerals WlllCh are prefer.-

ably: arranged .to read in the direction of the length of; the heads.

Havin described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: l 1- g 1. A laundry marking pin having a body, and fiat heads, of elliptical form in outline, at the ends of the bodyand spaced apart; the said heads being arranged edgewise in V the same plane as the body and extended transversely in opposite directions beyond the sides of the body. and in the same plane as said sides, with their greatest lengths at angles to the length of the body.

2. In a laundry marking pin, the combination of a body bar having aloop at one end and a curvilinear terminal at its opposite end and also having a pin at the opposite end of thexloop; said body bar, loop, terminal and'pin all lying in the same plane, a sheet-metal head arranged alongside said loop and having a marginal flange. bent aroundfthe loop, a second jsheet-metalhead arranged alongside the curvilinearterminal portion of the body bar in the same edgewise plane as, the first-named head and having a marginal flange and an opening between the ends of said flange, and a flat keeper member resting alongside the secondnamed head within and held by the mar- V ginal flange thereof and having an'ofi'set and slotted keeper portion between which and the second named head the terminal por tion of the body .bar is received and held; saidolfset and slotted portion bein snugly interposed between the ends of t e head flange and the pin of the body bar being 'movable inwardly and outwardly through the slot of said portion.

and spaced apart and extending laterally,

in the direction of the gr eatest=wid th of the c body. I

'65 3. A laundry marking pin comprisingv a 7 body and flat heads at the ends of the body 4. A laundry mark-ing pin comprising a 7 body including a bar and a; tongue'in parallelism with and spaced from said bar, a!

flat head at one end of the body and fixed to said bar and.tongue and extending later ally and in the direction of the greatest width of the body beyond the bar and tongue thereof, and a fiat head at the-opposite end of the body and spaced from the Witnesses: V V

CHAS. MCCULLOUGH, A. W. KRoHmE.

v RICHARD SCHRAMM. 

